Maysville Elementary

Maysville Elementary is one of the very small K-5 schools in Maysville, North Carolina, run under Jones County Schools, with 121 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Maysville Elementary sits 74% below that benchmark.

Maysville Elementary is one of 5 schools operated by Jones County Schools, a district that teaches 1,016 students overall.

On demographics, Maysville Elementary reports that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 28% Black, 21% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Jones County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 98% of students at Maysville Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Maysville Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.1%; this one delivers 60.4%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Jones County) logs that median household earnings sit near $59,641, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Maysville Elementary is one of 5 public schools in Jones County (combined enrollment of about 1,016 students).

The closest other public school is Pollocksville Elementary, roughly 7.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Maysville Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 49.8%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Maysville Elementary has contracted 15%, going from 142 students in 2018 to 121 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 40% to 28% over that span.

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